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Show ward Trend Continues In All Lines of Business on the basis or complete report from 23 companies, showed a gain ol 13.5 percent over November, 1932. Sales of the same companies in Oc tober, 1933, were 8.5 percent over October, 1932. o V ton-Marked lmprove- 0 'fLjiU and wholesale trade S. -cd in Government reports "tt reporting agencies wltn- ntion. A" emphatic change ont is noticeable in flnan- s ' toward all phases of the :'?3t: recovery program and Vv in the case of NRA, fanciers had criticized seve-:,'manv seve-:,'manv weeks. Many of them bei"S qote1 m tJle finftn-v'ions finftn-v'ions of newspapers as being 4 that NRA is "getting Hi -.Sere. 11) . vees business comparisons j to the Federal Reserve ... (jyt, business in dollars as ' "bv the number of checks ; jii over the country was 15.6 " of the same period last year, oartment of Labor report' eiit as "steady, with a gain s:; percent over a year ago. jsges have advanced in tile 343 percent", and the trend .:oloyment is declared to be jj upward in all branches of 5 and trad?. . industrial Conference Board ; ie cost of living up 2.5 per-.carared per-.carared with early December Wholesale prices are up 18 J ::. Dun & Bradstreet reports saess failures are 40 percent ian a year ago at this time, prices are 6.3 percent higher ; December, 1932, stock prices :snt, and stock-market volume srcent. Favorable dividend if; ;s during the past week to-J, to-J, the largest number in any iisek in the past 2 years. v svments were increased, 17 A. 3 initial payments were tad 13 extra payments were ! t and 13 extra dividends also rsl The fact that the recent s S:ates Treasury subscrip-iir subscrip-iir the current issue of $350,- "" if of 2i percent one-year cer-a cer-a were more than three times .scribed ,impressed financiers riere. imerican Steel and Iron In-reports In-reports steel production for eeember at 31.5 percent of , against 28.3 December 1 in raid-November. Montgom-:d Montgom-:d & Co. reports net profit for tier ending October 31 of "3, against net loss of $1,-in $1,-in the preceding 3 months. ?roducts Co.s earnings for i quarter this year were against net loss of $69,080 -ir 1932 period. Reports for ' and November show that - -r.on Rand's earnings were .jJthan for the 3 months end-f" end-f" member 30, although season-'- -3 in November averaged 4 - -aider those of October. For ;Jit quarter the company's ':s were $203,656 after char-"pared char-"pared with a net loss of ; i-for the corresponding quart- X Seted statements to the In-Commerce In-Commerce Commission show 3 class 1 steam railways had Kgate net income of $16,791,-' $16,791,-' September after taxes and '':' s. compared with $6,637,459 ' ' ''ember, 1932. There net loss 36,496 for the 9 months end-siember, end-siember, 1933, compared with ' of $164,283,471 for the first Si -is of 1932. All of the gain ' 5Sed since July, when the M in motion. As a result, 'I the railroads, in agricul-S agricul-S ; s well as industrial regions, ii own exceptional gains. The '- Burlington & Quincy esti-;? esti-;? J earnings for the first 11 of 1933 at $4,812,463, against Net income of the New utral in October was $201,-c $201,-c j gainst $45,716 in October, 1932. -store sales for November, i |